Featuring Ginuwine and Twista
Momma told me one day it was going to happen
Sometimes I be waking up at high noon
Momma told me one day it was going to happen
Just can't let go, is this the end
Did I just hear a tight jam, now it's on, let make my maneuver
I could never watch a soul die, for shoot a man that be too fly
Momma told me one day it was going to happen
Just can't let go, is this the end
But she never told me when
She told me it would happen when I was much older
Wish it would have happened then, is this the end
Momma told me one day it was going to happen
But she never told me when
She told me it would happen when I was much older
Wish it would have happened then, is this the end
Saying, why me Lord, folks thinking I'm going to die soon
I just tell them keep seeking, but when they sleeping
I be concealed up in my room, knowing that it could happen
I'm just trying to maintain, because the future is untold
Til the static unfolds that the good die young
Please God, let a Bad Boy die old
Do you think I want to lie cold
Or better yet, have many shots come close to the head
Shirt soaked til it's red
The most that was said was that my homies had a toast to the dead
Do I need a pack a vest for stress so I can rest
Cause even though I'm blessed in my flesh
It all came down to a test
A mother fucker want to come and put a tattoo on my chest
Now I'm caught up in the mix and I can't do shit, but still
I can't ride with program, fearing no man
Hit the car door, let the door slam, it's a blessing that he had slow hands
But he's still right behind me
All these heartless fools is steady coming after my P
So many phony niggas loving to hate Sean
So many cheddar niggas coming after my cheese
Is it my car that they're losing, are we all for the choosing
Or is it all in confusion, better yet all an illusion
Shots rang through the hall, bullets cruising for bruising
Don't let this heartless bastard take my life away
I don't want to conceive taking his either
Dipped into the back and took a breather
Heard steps steady in closing with the bullets skeezer
Got to do something, I ain't scared to go
But yet my heart is steady pumping for something
I refuse to be the one that they be dumping
Got to get away before the techs start gunning
Bodies start jumping, wrecking my brain not to try and understand
But withstand, is it cause I'm a rich man
Or just try to put a brother down in the dirt like quicksand
But no matter what the reason, I don't want to stop breathing
There's dreams to fulfill still
Can't complete them with a still kill
Face to face with enemies still grill
Forgive me for the pain I've caused and the sins I've committed
Even though I'm not hoping to go
I wish someone would open the door
Dismantle then the trigger and his fingers steady choked in the snow
Is this the end
But she never told me when
She told me it would happen when I was much older
Wish it would have happened then, is this the end
I just don't know
Wish she would have zapped it then
Hit the alley source man in a Land Cruiser
In his hand was a Ruger, dipped in a Lex like Luger
Heard shots from a steel bruiser
Teflon in the seat took a pale stress
Felt the hate on my chest as I placed on my vest
What's wrong with the brakes in the LX
Ran straight into a light pole, just before I got my life stole
A car came to the rescue
I bailed in and said, bless you
But what made me the man you would want to show help to
I proceeded to ask him, and he said with a passion
But who are you, the pimp nigga named Twista from the cold Chi
When the sun's shy got to keep one eye, nigga, I been shot at and stole on
No protection from one time, only caught for my prime
So I asked the Father what I did so wrong
Cause, shit, it's been hard for me besides chief
And the smell of sweet news when the beef brew
Mother fuckers steady balling but steady falling
Right in detours, about to hit my feet soon
So I just presume, deep into the rhymes of a rapper
Prepare my mind for the capture
Thinking Ginuwine like the bachelor
But why these niggas want to make us into crime with the rapture
Ego for dispersing us, don't even hurt the clutch
Cause he's coldblooded and merciless
Steady busting shots at both of us, was the strap close to us
Then for survival we both to bust
But Renaults get to roast to crush, cause he steady getting closer
Paranoid like a crackfiend when the gat seen
Scream when the bullet hit me in the shoulder
Don't want to die til I get older
Try to visualize the beholder, he's inconceivable
So now my sight is getting dark a lot
Best to step off in this parking lot where them dogs bark a lot
And try to wait until his ma get hot
I can make a person fight to survive whether good or conniving
You never know when it's your time to leave
Smoking weed to keep my mind at ease, let's go back to the car
But wait, I can't find the keys
Plus we didn't chill long enough, the footsteps are coming close
Is it one of them unholy men
With a strap ready to boldly sin
Mama told me it was coming, but I wish she would have told me when
Is this the end
But she never told me when
She told me it would happen when I was much older
Wish it would have happened then, is this the end
Momma told me one day it was going to happen
But she never told me when
She told me it would happen when I was much older
Wish it would have happened then, is this the end
I just don't know
Wish she would have zapped it then